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About Mark Bussler

Mark Bussler is the prolific artist, filmmaker, and writer behind numerous science fiction, history, photography, gaming, and coloring books. His works include The World's Fair of 1893 Ultra Massive Photographic Adventure series, Ethel Club, All Hail the Vectrex, Amazing Ocean: Undersea Coloring Book for Adults, Chicago 1933 World's Fair: A Century of Progress in Photographs, Seatropica, Old Timey Pictures with Silly Captions, and more. Mark is the creator of the Turbo Volcano and Kawaii Ocean brands.

Many of his film projects can be seen on PBS and include Expo: Magic of the White City narrated by Gene Wilder, Horses of Gettysburg, and Westinghouse. Mark created Classic Game Room in 1999, the longest-running Internet video game review show in the world. He returned to documentary filmmaking in 2019 for a project based on the 1939 New York World's Fair.

Mark draws in digital and physical media and often combines the two. His designs appear on thousands of clothing products, shirts, mugs, and prints.

In his spare time, Mark is an avid reader of classic science fiction, comic books, manga, and antique newspapers. He lives in deep space with his wife and kids, a broken computer, and a psychotic dog.

Author Updates

My newest history book released this month, The World's Fair of 1893 Ultra Massive Photographic Adventure Volume 2! This follow up to 2017's Volume 1 focuses more on the interiors of buildings, crowds and beautiful drawings of the event that entertained more than 27,000,000 people at the end of the 19th century.

330 pages. Black and white. Available in Kindle eBook and Print from Amazon.com

If you love learning about the "White City" and want to see more incre

Feel the Blast Processing flow with the most entertaining and comprehensive Sega Genesis collector's guide ever created! Come for the 16-bits, stay for the TRUXTON!

Available on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FT2WN1K

Ultra Massive Volume 4 continues the never-ending saga of reviewing everything with the power of Blast Processing. The groundbreaking Ultra Massive Video Game Console Guide series returns with an all Sega Genesis book and review guide. Includes the 16

My newest book, UNSUBSCRIBED!, started life as a blog post and grew, and grew, and grew, and grew into a book! I have a lot to say on the matter, as it turns out.

After working in Internet self-publishing for nearly 12 years, I decided it was time tell my story concerning platform diversification. I have many opinions about the "industry," and can give loads of advice when it comes to content creation and, more specifically, distribution. It is hard to get noticed in an ov

What happens when Edit-Station 1, Surf Panda, Heyzoos, and Senor Commodore Rice Ball create their own manga about a kitten who lives in a teacup? Read Manga Teacup Cherry Blossom and find out!

This was an experimental project I drew in the evenings while testing some new software and it breaks from the rest of the CGR Universe in its own special way. This is a short read, and a budget-priced book and Kindle release. Makes a fun short read an

Prepare yourself for my next book, Retro Noir, which I plan to release in July 2018 on Amazon.com. Retro Noir looks at video game hardware in a new and interesting way, unlike anything that you have ever seen before. When artistic photography and smart-ass sarcastic writing collide, you get one of my books! Enjoy.

The first Retro Noir is all about video game controllers! Joysticks! Paddles! Fight sticks! If it controls video games, it is fair game, and I photographed a LOT of contro

What is a Turbo Volcano? Good question, Turbo Volcano is a clothing brand and a series of somewhat-related comic books.

Turbo Volcano started life as a reverb-heavy shout-out in Classic Game Room reviews back in the day (like two years ago.) I liked it so much I bough the URL and started to draft a sci-fi space opera graphic novel called Turbo Volcano: Heavy Metal Mercenaries. Like most of my comics, it is backlogged behind a popular series of video game collector's guides called t

There's lots going on in deep space as I frantically write several books that should make it in time for the end of the year. Here's what you can look forward to! Subscribe to me on Amazon.com to receive updates: https://www.amazon.com/Mark-Bussler/e/B00IQ9WH44

Ultra Massive Video Game Console Guide Volume 3 has launched across the galaxy! The third book in my Ultra Massive series features photograhs, reviews, and collecting advice for more than 20 game consoles including Sega Saturn, Atari Lynx, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, PS4, and more! Available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1982982551